Get those pinheads, GPSA!
Bravo to the GPSA for investigating the "unbiased" Get Out the Vote campaign! It is quite clear that this band of pinheads grossly misused student dollars to further its own inane agenda. Anyone who went to the referendum forums or even looked at some of the propaganda that they spread could see this. I'm just amazed that there wasn't an outcry sooner, seeing that at the last forum, one of the Get Out the Vote campaign coordinators actually admitted that it had been biased. I hope that Ms. Mote and her gang are forced to reimburse every penny that they squandered on such a dishonest endeavor.
-- Alan Schoenrock
Biology Freshman
SRC makes 'improvements'
I just started attending the Student Recreation Complex again, after a three-month hiatus. Three months is a long time, and I was expecting some changes to the fabled SRC over my absence.
Boy, was I in for it! The minute I walked in through the doors I was greeted by a beautiful facade. They had remodeled that entrance thing where you have to tender your student ID for admittance into these magnificent halls of recreation. I couldn't wait to see the rest of the place.
My hopes were still high after having run the gauntlet of the entrance, as I spied a pretty cool-looking thing hanging on the wall by the refreshment stands. HEY! It's a bloomin' LCD TV thing, yeah, right next to another big TV. I guess after a hard workout session, there's nothing like sitting down to watch your choice of programs on TWO TVs.
I'm finally in the men's locker room, and I discover they had even gone to the trouble of investing in some soothing background music. I changed into to my gym rags, and having relieved myself I noticed that the urinal I had just used didn't flush properly. A small blemish, or it would have been ... if most of the rest of the urinals also weren't malfunctioning, and if someone hadn't forgotten to clean the locker room floors. But the floors are always dirty, and from previous experience I knew that the floors are cleaned about once a month, if we're lucky.
I was able to squeeze in some time in the weight room. Half an hour was about all I could stand, because it felt like a sauna in there. Maybe the esteemed people who run the SRC thought that by creating a sauna-like atmosphere we'd sweat more, and get that much more out of our workouts. Guess what it smelled like.
While changing back into my street clothes, I was left wondering why ASU administrators were treating us lowly students so well. I mean, when we're not battling for a table to eat in the Memorial Union, or trolling for a parking space, or walking around with an empty expression in our eyes looking for a computer in the Commons, we can enjoy the fine amenities of the SRC.
Some might say that if we wanted better facilities we should pay for them, but I thought we already did. The annual tuition increases aren't enough (or the 20 percent increase in the locker rental fees)? Do we need to specifically apportion a part of an extra tuition increase for just the SRC? Maybe ASU can put that in their brochures, "If you want a nice gym, please add 10 percent more to you tuition." That's sure to increase the enrollment here, because that's the one thing that matters, right? It's not the quality of life for the students that are already here that matters most. No, what matters most is that we pack as many students as possible into this campus. Hey, classes packed to the brim (uhhh wait, look, there's still one empty seat, still room for more).
Thank you sir, may I have another?
-- Prabhat Shrestha
Engineering graduate student
